Nothing about UFC or any other fighting league interests me. I like to see a wide receiver get laid out across the middle with a vicious hit, but nothing about two men going at it trying to kill each other interests me. But I recognize it's increasing interest and I have to admit Kimbo Slice has caught my attention.
Even Dan LeBatard waxed poetic about the up and coming street fighter yesterday:
Now that Kimbo Slice mopped up trained fighter Ray Mercer (who I'm told isn't all that good), the debate is where does Slice find his next piece in the fighting world.Kimbo's tale? It is something out of the movies. Think 1978's Every Which Way But Loose, except with a real tough guy and real pain and real blood, not the cinematic Clint Eastwood's Philo Beddoe and his ridiculous chimp. Think Mr. T from Rocky III, back when he was considered a mohawked menace and not a 1980s cartoon and pitied fool. Kimbo Slice is very real, in every way. An evolution of our technology, of our dark side, of our movie fantasies (without the makeup or the made up). Bloody. Raw. Scary. An evolution, into something more primitive.
Kimbo Slice, a Miami Palmetto High graduate whose real name is Kevin Ferguson, has been fighting his way through our scarred streets since he was 13, when he beat up a 26-year-old in a brawl over a bicycle and started to grow his mysterious legend of menace.
More recently, he has been packaged for our perusal, his savage street fights released strategically in calculated droplets over the Internet by his handlers and usually ''going viral'' with kids who can`t get enough of the raw brutality. Kimbo does not own a computer, but understands its power and reach. His aura has grown in a way that makes it difficult now to find willing street fighters, even as his friends go after the broke and hungry convicts leaving jail.
Can Slice hang in the UFC? Can a street fighter topple the best trained fighters in the world? Who would you like to see him fight next?
Source: (Miami Herald)
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